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blinking yellow light on the power button of a Dell system is a possible power supply issue. press the eject button on the dvd drive while the power button flashes yellow light. if the disc trays wont come out, you need to replace the power supply. hope it helps. good day.

No beeps are
heard, no CPU fan is turning on, only blinking yellow light. This brand
usually experiences this problem.

First, check the power supply. Disconnect connectors
from the board and make a jumper wire for the green wire to any black
wire. If the PS fan does not spin then it's busted, else proceed below.

Reconnect connectors except the one with 4 wires, 2
yellow and 2 black, then switch on. If CPU fan turns on then you have a
bad processor.

If the fan is still not turning on then check the USB port pins for short circuit.. disconnect it from the board and switch on.

Do the same with other hardware connected to the board.

PS:
The metallic casing of computers must be connected to the common ground
of the power utility to protect it from stray currents that result to
damage of sensitive components such as processors, memory and hard
disks.

if the power button was blinking amber, unplug your tower, and hold the power button for 30 seconds to 1 minute, to use any excess power stored in the capassitors in the pc. this was told to me by a dell tech, it is a small issue with the 3100=E310, and 5150=E510 Dimension desktops

I have similar problem these days. After normal shutting down the PC, it can not be powered up again, the amber light blinks. A temp solution for my case is by doing these steps:

1. leave all monitor, network, keyboard and mouse etc. connected
2. disconnect the power, wait until green light and amber light dim.
3. pop up the CMOS battery, then put back in (better to check its remaining voltage, if not good, change a new one)
4. power amber light flash shorter and lighter
5. disconnect any USB connections like keyboard and mouse,
6. immediately connect keyboard and mouse back into USB ports
7. my pc powers up at this point, all green lights shining. Except it displays CMOS setup warnings, give me options to click either F1 or F2
8. I click F1, it goes into normal login XP

The only problem is I could not shutdown PC again, if I do, then I have to repeat 1-8. I have to use "Standby" instead, which I usually do.

If you experience the dreaded blinking orange power light, make sure to check your motherboard for blown capacitors as well as corrosion on the motherboard. Looks like the photo below.... if you see this then a replacement motherboard is needed.

check at the back of the tower you would find 4 LEDs(small lights) labeled ABCD in a row or you might have 1234 on the front panel. note the status of these LEDs when the problem occurs and check for the solution accordingly on the support.dell. website.

would also suggest to disconnect all the devices (keyboard mouse printers etc.)next time the problem occurs and then try to start the computer